What do a 75-year-old Los Angeles based rocket engineer and an eleven-year-old schoolgirl from Austria have in common? Not much at first glance, but Arthur and Lilly influenced each other’s lives in a fateful way. […]
As the Frankfurt Book Fair prepares to open its doors on Wednesday to around 6,000 media representatives, current developments in Israel and Gaza are impacting the world’s largest publishing trade event. Repercussions could already be felt last Friday when the organizers of […]
with Daniel Eisenberg, Dr. Felicitas Hentschke, Deanna Ledezma, Joshua Rios, Ellen Rothenberg, and Sonia Yoon Will there be enough work in the future? What happens to essential workers during the next pandemic? Will robots replace […]
Cash is Queen breaks down the basics of how young women of today can learn to understand and manage money – an empowering skill that will last them a lifetime. The world’s first money book written exclusively […]
Join the Goethe-Institut Chicago this fall for a monthly in-person reading group focused on contemporary German-language novels that are newly available in English translation! This reading group is free and open to all, and discussions […]
No more schnitzels, sauerkraut, bratwurst and spätzle. Instead: vegetables, fruits, wild herbs and edible foraged plants- your concept of German food will be transformed by Kit Schulte’s new cookbook Modern German food from a Berlin […]
Have you seen the new addresses for the 55 Voices video series yet? “Can we build a civilization based on news and hypes?” asks media scholar Bernhard Poerksen after a conversation with former California Governor Jerry […]
Read and discuss works by contemporary German authors in this series hosted by the Goethe-Institut. All books can be read in recent English translation or in the German original; our discussion will be in English. […]
Join the MAK Center for Art and Architecture for a panel discussion on 100years of Bauhaus and the legacy of the institution with Michael Boyd (Furniture and Landscape Designer), Mariestella Casciato (Curator of Architecture, GettyResearch […]
The European Book Club (organized by the Goethe-Institut Chicago and EUNIC Chicago) meets regularly for a book discussion of a bestselling novel in English translation. Guests who would like to attend, should read the book in […]
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